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Ninos groaned, his body hurt and he wasn't sure why. Opening his eyes he relaized he was in a very bright room. He blinked to adjust his eyes but failed, one name flooded his mind Ash. Where was she? What had happened? Where was the he11 was he? He tried to moved but failed, he realized he was strapped down. With out really thinking, he started trying to fight against the binds but with no luck. A sudden hand pressed down on his chest just enough to make him stop move.

"Calm down," a deep voice commanded, "or your going to pull the IV out of your arm and that isn't going to fell to good."

Ninos turned his head and realized a man stood at his side. His bald head gleamed with light, his eye seem to have come from the polar ice caps. He smiled a cruel harsh smile that didn't calm Ninos any more.

Ash groaned and tried to fight, but someone pushed her shoulders down,
"Don't fight, you should be honored to be here." the same guy as before said. Honored? Honored by what? I'm strapped to a table and I'm very cold. This is not what I call honored... Ash said, she shivered and trie dto looke down at her body, wodnering why she freezing cold. She felt needles in her arm and her heart beat quickened. Where was she? WHat was happening to her? Why was she here? How had she gotten here? Ash felt like she ws about to panic her hea dwas strappe down, she couldn't looka round, she had to rely on her hearing to figure thinsg out.

Ash groaned and tried to fight, but someone pushed her shoulders down,
"Don't fight, you should be honored to be here." the same guy as before said. Honored? Honored by what? I'm strapped to a table and I'm very cold. This is not what I call honored... Ash said, she shivered and trie dto looke down at her body, wodnering why she freezing cold. She felt needles in her arm and her heart beat quickened. Where was she? WHat was happening to her? Why was she here? How had she gotten here? Ash felt like she ws about to panic her hea dwas strappe down, she couldn't looka round, she had to rely on her hearing to figure thinsg out.

Ninos decided to jsut lay back, realzing there was nothing else to do. As he lay there, he half listen to the doctor. He was whistling while writing things down. Then he realized he could hear the slight beeping sound of a machine. Then a girl whispering to what sounded like a male. He couldn't exactly hear what they were saying.

"Alright you two," the doctor who dad talked to him before said. "Get the maze ready, we'll start there."

The whispering stopped and Ninos heard a door open and close. The man set down the clipboard and pencil and Ninos felt a sharp pain in one arm. He opened his mouth and a weak cry came out. It happened again only in the opposite arm. Ninos wished he understood what was happening and, probably not for the last time, wished he could go back to his ruined home.

Ash inhaled sharply when she felt a needle stab both her arms. She still didn't grasp what was going on. What was the maze? Why were they being stabbed with needles? Whyw as it so cold? Who were these people? She wished she could ask someone, but was to nervous to ask anyone and thoughs he knew Ninos was on a table next to her, that;s where she assumed he was at least,s he didn't ask him becuase she didn't want the people who were actually doing this stuff to them to get angry at her or Ninos.

Ninos felt four pairs of hand clasp on him, one on each leg and one on each sholder. The doctor that had spoke to him began to undo the straps that restricted him. He was tempted to fight but realized that might be bad for Ash. He realxed and allow them to pick him up and put him on another bed. Taking a quick glance of either side, he saw Ash on the tabel next to him. They were sticking needles in her arms!

"Please! Don'T!" Ninos screamed on reflex trying to sit up.

The hands grasped him again and tied him to the bed. The doctor with the clipboard laughed again.

"Don't worry boy," he said writing something down, "she will follow you shortly." As the rolled Ninos out of the room the doctor looked at the curly haired doctor who was working on the girl. "Send her in after him once she is done."

Ninos could only watch the cieling as he was rolled to the maze. He heard bites and peices of conversations from doctors. There was alot going on here with the hybrids. Disecting them, taking blood to maybe make a cure. Yet, Ninos couldn't figure out why he was here. He gave a soft laugh as he realized that the doctors weren't dead. They all apperntly wnet into hiding for some reason.
Ninos was rolled into a pure white room with nothing in it. He bed clicked and odd sound of machnics began to fill his ears. The floor lowered slowly and darkness surrounded him. He could only mkae out the metal walls. Where was he going?

The floor stopped and the scientist jsut disappeared. Ninos sat up and realized all around him were tall thick rock walls. As he got off the bed he stumbled and fell. What ever they did to him, it made him dizzy and off balance. He sat for awhile waiting for his head to clear. As he waited he looked around and relaized he was in a huge cavarn that they made rock walls in to make a huge maze. The cavarn was light by hidden lights but it wasn't as bright as the focility above.
"Welcome children, to the maze of true colors." A deep famliar vocie boomed over a sound system. "It isn't a simple maze but the objective is simple. Find the exit and along the way, you might find each other."
The vocie cut off and was followed by roars and growls of creatures. Ninos shivered hating the sound of the growiling. For once he was afaird, truly afraid. He brought his knees up to his chest and sat there for a long while. Not want anything to do with this place, hoping this was a nightmare. Deep down he knew it wasn't and knew he need to get moving.

Ash started to move, she heard the growling of the creatures and checked her pockets, she had nothing to fight with. Find Ninos and the exit with out dying...she told her self and then laughed at herself. A little bit ago she hadn't been afraid to die, and had told her whole life story to a boy she'd attacked earlier today. Now she was trying to find that boy and stay alive. She turned a corner and nearly ran into a wall, she turned and walked in a different direction, there was no rhyme of reason to her walking, she was just heading toward sthe noise of the beasts. Knowing this messed up people they'd put the beasts right by the exit, so the exit should be where teh ebast are...hoepfully. Or she could be walking in the opposite direction she had to go and be walking to her death.

Ninos got up and patted off the his jeans that he still wore. He relized that they hadn't given him a shirt and had taken his. Mumbling he decided to walk away from the beast till he could find some sort of weapon. Three corners he found dead ends and already started to hate this place. He felt like a mouse finding cheese and he really didn't want the cheese in the first place. Shaking his head, he silently wished the Ash would make some sound she he could pin point her. Oddly he seem to hear farther then anything.

"Ash!" Ninos screamed and listen to it echo through the cavarn.

He sighed realizing that it wouldn't be any good to hear for her cuase he couldn't pin point her. Ninos kicked the nearest wall and isntantly regreted it. Pain shot through his foot and he grunted whencing in pain. He was really going to hate doing this.

Ash heard Ninos yell and cupping ehr hands over her mouth she took a deep breath,
"Ninos!" she shouted back, trying to figure out where he was, she was at an intersection with four pathways. She looek ddown each pathway, but didn't walk down any, she wasn't sure which direction to head anymore.

((OK to clear things up, theyw ere injected with the mutation syrum right? Or were they injected with somethinge lse?))

((Yes, and whether they gain immortalty or become some sort of hybrid is up to you. ^_^ they were also injected with alot of water and food.))
Ninos heard her yell and could almost point otu what general direction she came from.
"Well at least we can yell to each other," He called back lauhging histerically.
He started in the direction that he thought she was at but only foun misleading routs.

"Imma stay put, and yell at ya, ya can come to me an' we'll git outta 'ere!" she shouted into nothingness. She rubbed her arms, the skin felt odd, lik eit was morphing, she looekd down at her arms, fine hair was growing on her arms, it was soft and dark colored, black like her hair. She swallowed, wodnering what was happening to her. The hair though it was getting ehr arms and legs warmer, scared her, why? Why was this suddenly happening to her?

((I'm going to have her turn into a either a 'black tiger' (real thing, look it up...I'd have her develop stripes in her 'fur' then. Or a black panther...which hybrid do you think would be better?))

((I would say go panther because Tigers have muscle bulk that she would have to grow. :D yet, it is an epic idea of maker her a black tiger >_<. Your choice though...I am still forming an idea of what I am going to make Ninos into.))

Ninos sighed hearing what Ash had said. Yea he gets to figure out the maze to find her. Walking down the many paths, he he felt his body started to tingel. Looking down at his arms, Ninos watched his skin darken to a thick black color. The color spread through out his skin, like plauge he couldn't stop. What was happening? What had those crazy peopel done to him? He stopped dead in his tracks, his mouth started to hurt. Something told Ninos this wasn't going to be the best change in his life.

((True. -_- Um...urg..well I think I'll make her a black panther...I don't want he rto grow))

The fur was now thick and dark and covered alot of her body, but strangely not her face yet, though she could feel fur growing, lighter softer fur. Ash felt like crying, she hadn't been pretty before, but she was hideous now. Maybe its ounded vain adn girlie, but she really didn't want to grow fur all over her body. She put her head in her hands, the ends of her fingers hurt like something was trying to push out of them.

((Well, >_> I am going to get a little detailed in Nion's change.))
Ninos spit one last time, offishally spitting out the last of the blood and his teeth. The human looking teeth covered the floor, covered in blood. With his tounge, Ninos inspected the new teeth that brutally pushed out his old ones. Feeling around, he realized he had smaller sharper teeth then before. He groaned not sure what to make of all this.
Standing he started to move through the maze again. He ignored the pain shooting through his hands and arms. He jsut had to find Ash, he had to know if this was happening to her to! As he turned another corner he found a long sright path that came ot a dead end but an opening on the side wall.
"Ash!" Ninos yelled but his voice slightly cracking.
Ninos blinked remeber when his voice became deeper. It started to crack and shift pitches. Oh please don't ruin my voice he thought desperetly.

Ash heard someone call her name, the voice sounded like Ninos, but cracked and dropped to a deeper voice. Ash stared at her fingers, the ends of them her bleeding, claws were there now, she had no nails. She felt a stabbing pain in her mouth and felt tears sting her eyes. She wished leader had just ordered her killed on the spot, now she under stood what was happening to her, she was turning into a hybrid. Ash hated it, her life was horrible enough as it was with out adding the burden of being a freak that usaully was killed on sight by people, or people ran away from. She stood up, Ninos was probably changing, but she didn't care anymore, she didn't want to be seen like this! THe pain in her mouth grew and turning she darted down one of the paths, her now fur covered feet barely making any noise against the hard floors.